Large Animals Show at San Jose, Part 1

As we mentioned that the San Jose venue of Expo Hall is huge, it so big that it's more than enough to have some other animals!    The half of the building is used to have a Large Animal Stampede Show.

Here are some cows and steers being judged and in their corrals.

 

Open Top Winners at San Jose

Show A Best In Show judge: Jordan Miner.
Best In Show rabbit: Betty Chu's English Angora.

Show A Reserve In Show rabbit: Mini Rex shown by Airi and Lillian Bearden.

Show B Best In Show judge: Carol Green.
Show A Best In Show rabbit: Stefanie Wright's Rex.

Show B Reserve In Show rabbit: Casey Jones's Satin Angora.

Show C Best In Show judge: Misty Polasik with Cory San Jose as Assist.
Best In Show rabbit: Carol Green's American Fuzzy Lop.
Reserve In Show rabbit: Airi and Lillian Bearden's Mini Rex.

 

Showroom Scenes at San Jose

The June show at San Jose is held at the Expo Hall, some 45,000 sq. ft. of indoor space with climate control.

Despite having some many other activities going on in the area, the show is well attended.

There are so much space that exhibitors all spread out.

Rex breeders mother and daughter duo Linda and Nikki Talken relaxing with fellow Rex friend.   Linda and Nikki have to work really hard when their club show was going on at Vallejo, but they got to relax a bit at San Jose.

These pretty orchilds are raised by New Zealand breeder CJ who is elsewhere in the showroom.
In the background is Mini Rex breeder Lillian who is also our very able show superintendent.

 

Moody Blues Wins Open Best In Show at San Jose

In show C at San Jose, Carol Green's American Fuzzy Lop Moody Blues wins the Best In Show, picked by judge Misty Polasik with Corey San Jose as the Assist.

Beautiful girl Green-Burb Moody Blues in the flower garden.

Moody Blues also won an open Best In Show at the San Jose Show in March 2025.

As we posted that at the current June shows,  Aurelia won show A open Best In Show and Moody Blues won show C open Best In Show.   Guess what, the same two rabbits also each won an open Best In Show at the March San Jose shows.   Consistency!

 

Prim Rose Wins Open Reserve In Show at San Jose

Prim Rose was the double open Best In Show winner at Merced in May.   In June she won the top honor again in San Jose.

Judge Carol Green presides in show B, Satin Angora white senior doe wins the Reserve In Show.

Casey loves her Satin Angora Prim Rose, one of the winningest Satin Angoras she has bred and shown.

 

Aurelia Wins Open Best In Show at San Jose

Santa Clara County Rabbit and Cavy Shows Best In Show prizes.

Aurelia at 15 months old still carries her long dense coat with nice finish.

Aurelia hopes for another open Best In Show before getting ready for motherhood.

Aurelia gets her wish, judge Jordan Miner picks her to be the Best In Show in show A. The show is held indoor in a huge climate controlled building.  The Bougainvillea just outside the showroom is so beautiful that we decide to have an unconventional Best In Show shoot.

Aurelia has cumulated 11 open Best In Show, 4 open Reserve In Show, 4 specialty Best In Show and 1 specialty Reserve In Show in her 6 months of showing.   Based on her show points she is currently the number 1 English Angora in the nation,  her points are three times as much as the second place rabbit.   

Judge Jordan examining Aurelia on the Best In Show table.

 

Carolyn's Angora Scarves

Carolyn likes to knit scarves with Angora yarn.  This scarf is "self striped".   What does "self striped" mean?   When the yarn is originally spun with different colors, the yarn looks patched or spotted.  When knitted, the patches of different color are concentrated in rows thus look like the knitter is changing the yarn to make stripes.   

Recently Carolyn likes a bit smaller scarf than the wider and thicker scarves.  This is her newest scarf.  It's 100 percent white English Angora dyed in pink.  It's light and airy.